The Teacher Reporter

Young people who have considered a career in share trading have been given the chance to enter an investment competition with prizes of more than R200 000 up for grabs for the winners.

More than 600 learners at a school in Johannesburg have been give prophylaxis treatment after an outbreak of Meningitis claimed the life of a fellow pupil.

Microsoft South Africa is calling on all teachers who use ICT as a teaching tool in their classroom to take part in workshops organized specifically to prepare them to take part in the annual Microsoft Innovative Teachers Forum.

John Lewis – South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu)

A project to build the numeracy, literacy and life skills of grade four learners has significantly bolstered their achievement in these areas.

Telkom has kicked off its ambitious bid to connect 2000 schools across the country to the internet by the end of 2010 with the opening of the first Telkom Internet Café at a high school in the Western Cape.

The Western Cape Education Department is close to completing the rollout of 160 new classrooms for Grade R learners, due to be completed by the end of March 2009.

January is skin cancer awareness month and, as 80% of skin damage occurs before the age of 18, children are at high risk of contracting skin disease.

Heidedal Primêr – Western Cape education department best practice series.

The department of education has encouraged matriculants who might have failed in 2008 to apply for supplementary exams before the January 21 deadline.

Two Free State learners have qualified for bursaries towards becoming chartered accountants after clinching the top spots in the recent Pastel Thuthuka Accountancy Olympiad.

The Poetic Justice school’s poetry competition has reached its climax, with Simthembile Matyobeni of the Eastern Cape crowned the eventual winner.

The current air of uncertainty surrounding the economy has started to affect parents, who have changed their back-to-school shopping habits.

The department of education has just released the grade 12 examination timetable for 2009.

A week after the death of Kefuoe Seakamela Sacred Heart College has moved to dispel notions that bullying could have played a part in the seven-year-old’s death.

The National Senior Certificate exams have come to an end and the department of education reports that there were no serious irregularities reported.

Today marks the final day of the new National Senior Certificate exams and many grade 12 learners around the country finished off a difficult month with the Maths Paper 3 test.

Marianne Pienaar a teacher at Norman Henshilwood High School in Cape Town spoke to the Teacher about the National Senior Certificate History Paper 1 exam written today.

In the latest installment of our series on the National Senior Certificate exams, we speak to Michael Zuma about the grade 12 Business Studies paper, which was written today.

In the latest installment of our series on the National Senior Certificate exams, we look at the Geography paper which was written today.

Grade 12 learners wrote the National Senior Certificate isiZulu Home Language Paper 2 today, and not all the candidates were impressed.

Grade 12 learners around the country spent three hours writing Physical Science Paper 2: Chemistry today, and we got Theo Pellissier’s opinion on the exam.

In the latest installment of our series on the National Senior Certificate exams, we look at the Physical Science Paper 1, which was written today.

In the latest instalment of our review of the National Senior Certificate exams the Teacher looks at the Economics paper which was written today.

When do teachers want their salaries to be paid? If you receive your salary too early in December you may end up spending it all and, in January, find yourself queuing for a cash loan. If you receive it too late in the month, you may face a dull festive season without money to spoil yourself or your family.

In the third instalment of our coverage of the National Senior Certificate exams we look at mathematics, a subject that has come under increased scrutiny since the abolishment of the higher and standard grades.

For the first time grade 12s around the country are writing the same exams for the National Senior Certificate.

The new President of the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation (NAPTOSA) has called for a re-evaluation of the outcomes-based education (OBE) system.

Ezra Ramasethla has been elected as the new president of the National Professional Teachers Organisation of South Africa (NAPTOSA). The teachers union elected its new leadership at its National Congress in October, which marked two years of unity for the organisation after the amalgamation of the previous affiliates in 2006. Glenda Boyes was elected as […]

The Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program is offering South African teachers the opportunity to live and work in the United States by exchanging positions with teachers from similar institutions in that country.

The winners of the 2008 National Teaching Awards were announced in a gala event at the Union Buildings guesthouse in Pretoria last night.